A65285:1610
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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2. Christ will come as a Friend. Indeed if the Saints Judge were their Enemy, they might fear Condemning: But he who Loves them, and Prayed for them is their Judge; he who is their Husband is their Judge, therefore they need not fear but all things shall go well on their side.
2. Christ will come as a Friend. Indeed if the Saints Judge were their Enemy, they might fear Condemning: But he who Loves them, and Pray'd for them is their Judge; he who is their Husband is their Judge, therefore they need not fear but all things shall go well on their side.
Thirdly, The Trial it self, which hath a Dark and a Light Side.
1. A Dark Side. It will fall heavy on the Wicked: The Judge being set, the Books are opened, Rev. 20.12. The Book of Conscience, and the Book of God's Remembrance; and now the Sinners Charge being Read, and all their Sins laid open, their Murder Drunkenness, Uncleanness, Christ will say, Sinner, what can you plead for your selves, that the Sentence of Death should not pass? The Wicked being Convicted will be Speechless. Then follows that Dismal Sentence, Mat. 25.41. Ite Maledicti, Depart from me ye Cursed into Everlasting-Fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels. He that said to God Depart from me, Job 21.14. and to Religion Depart from me, must now hear that Word pronounced from his Judge, Depart from me; a dreadful Sentence, but Righteous,